Grid: Autosport Coming to PS3 on June 24th

Hey, PlayStation fans! It’s great to be back on the blog, and today I’m incredibly excited to bring you news of our latest game — Grid: Autosport on PS3.

Grid 2 raced off into a more narrative-led world with accessible controls, and it’s clear that for many of you that wasn’t what you wanted or expected from it. So with Grid: Autosport we had the opportunity to make a much more focused motorsport game, a desire that many of you have expressed directly to us, and a game that in spirit goes back to some of our earlier titles in terms of content and handling.

The Handling

As ever, our handling model has had a lot of effort put into it, and you’ll really notice the difference, we think, from Grid 2. For Grid: Autosport, we’ve gone back to a more authentic handling style. It’s definitely not a full simulation — we want it to be authentic, not clinical — but it’s more towards that end of the spectrum than before. If anything, we believe the handling is actually one or two steps further towards simulation than Race Driver: Grid, to give you an idea.

The Racing Disciplines

You’ll be hearing us talk about disciplines a lot as they make up another of the core foundations of the game. Disciplines are various types of motorsport, of which there are five within Grid: Autosport — each with its own unique style and feeling. A Touring Car race feels completely different to that of an Endurance or Open Wheel. It’s one of our key goals to capture the authenticity of each discipline in Grid: Autosport.

The Career

The single-player career in Grid: Autosport will allow you to become a professional racing driver. As you make progress you’ll be able to join and switch teams, fulfill sponsor demands, and beat rivals.

Racing with a teammate is back, and — at your request — he/she will now attack the cars ahead or defend his or her position.

The Racing Experience

When you take an authentic handling model, a great selection of cars, and a variety of racing disciplines, it still needs the racing experience to hold them all together. And in Grid: Autosport your racing experience revolves around the Paddock.

In the Paddock, you’ll be able to tune your car before the race. Tunable components include brake bias, differential, downforce, gears, ride height, and suspension at both the front and back. All of the cars in the game run great as “stock,” but the option to tune is there should you wish to get the car handling to your own preference. It’s also the place in which you’ll be able to take part in both practice and qualifying before a race.

Multiplayer

Powered by RaceNet, you’ll be able to join with friends to form Racing Clubs and race under team colors against other clubs in the community. Receive new challenges every week with the new and evolved Discipline Challenge; track your stats, including your complete vehicle history, and climb weekly with persistent leaderboards.

More Soon

We’re incredibly excited to lift the lid on Grid: Autosport, and we’re looking forward to the coming weeks when we get to show you more of the game. You won’t have to wait long to get your hands on it, as Grid: Autosport launches June 24th on PS3. We’ll see you on the track!

Had alot of a fun with the first GRID, havent got around to playing GRID 2 yet (its on my Hard drive)
Although I do have to ask why no PS4 version, I know IGN has an article saying something about forcing it onto next gen, Im just curious why not do a PS4 version and fill the void for racing games on next gen

We’re still working on our ‘next gen’ tech, it’s not quite there yet and it’s not something that we really want to be rushing. We’ll be releasing games on PS4 in the future and when we do they’ll be great :)

cmon man! There is no reason why any new release for the last gen shouldn’t be on the current gen! I went out and bought the ps4 and it is quickly becoming a paperweight (actually more like dust trapper)! Show the ps4 some real love. And before you tell me about Infamous second son, it was the worse infamous game of the bunch! looked great but Infamous 1 and 2 were better games!

The PS3 isn’t going to die yet, despite many on this blog hoping it would and a big thank you to Codemasters for supporting this system. Since there are still millions of PS3 users out there, I don’t see a problem for Codemasters to release it on the PS3. Just because people who say they won’t buy it because it’s not on the PS4 doesn’t mean diddly squat. If you hate Codemasters so much for supporting this “ancient” and “butt ugly” system that you wouldn’t touch with a 50 foot pole then just move on and be patient until they release something for the PS4. I’m sure there’s enough of us to check this game out and this is a day one purchase for me. Long live the freakin’ PlayStation 3.

A new Grid game?…damn this was a surprise.Anyway…I liked Grid 2…haven’t played the full game yet but the demo was really nice and fun,I’m sure the full game is great.Thank you guys for bringing this for PS3…yay PS3 FTW….you have my support for this.

My guess is that this isn’t on PS4 because they decided to use the existing GRID 2 engine and write a new game around it, rather than develop a new engine for PS4, and get it out relatively quickly. GRID 3 is likely already in development for PS4.

No one is knocking it for being on the ps3. It should be on the ps4 as well is all that we are saying. at this point feels like i should have saved my $400+ dollars and used that purchase games for my ps3. At this point any game that comes out for the ps3 should also come out for the ps4.

Just to add one more that loves Grid 2. It’s the first and only racing game that I play a lot. I’m hopping this new game is not similar to the Gran Turismo 5 driving experience. Very nice to know a new Grid is really close. All the best to you Ben and the Codemasters Team.